 | John George Wood - 1882 - 110 pàgines
...cylindrical space, if the two edges of the band meet, or a semi-cylindrical space, if they imperfectly meet. This inimitable mechanism enables each filament to take up and firmly grasp, at ami point of its length, a molecule of sand, or, if placed in a linear series, it rote of molecules.... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1889 - 408 pàgines
...longitudinally, into a cylindrical form, so as to enclose a semicircular space, if they only imperfectly meet. This inimitable mechanism enables each filament to...perfect is the disposition, of the muscular fibres, at 1 See also Dr. T. Williams " On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration," in "Annals of Nat. Hist.," ser.... | |
 | John George Wood - 1892 - 702 pàgines
...cylindrical space, if the two edges of the band meet, or a semi-cylindrical space, if they imperfectly meet. This inimitable mechanism enables each filament to...point of its length, a molecule of sand, or, if placed iu a linear series, a row of molecules. But so perfect is the disposition of the muscular fibres at... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 2003 - 416 pàgines
...; or a semi-cylindrical space, if they only imperfectly meet. This " See Notes to " Marruioii." K 3 inimitable mechanism enables each filament to take...extreme free end of each filament, that it is gifted with the twofold power of acting on the sucking and on the muscular principle. When the tentacle is... | |
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... imperfectly meet. This inimitable mechanism enables each filament to take up and firmly grasp, at any point of its length, a molecule of sand, or, if placed in a linear series, a row of molecules. But so perfect is the disposition of the muscular... 
